I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

When I went to Hollywood in 1927, the girls were wearing lumpy sweaters and skirts. I was wearing sleek suits and half naked beaded gowns and piles and piles of furs.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead